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In this story, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers are contemporaries, and both have hard-knock lives in 1939-1941 New York. Hard to say whose is worse. Steve is sickly. Tony's a whore. They become friends-- the world is going crazy with war, adding to the tension of daily life.

Tony is/was an underage prostitute, but as that's not explicit*, I felt the warning tag was misleading, however if even that much is disturbing, I thought I'd best mention it here.

CHAPTER 22 became EXPLICIT Sex, but at the time Tony was 17 years old, 10 months, and some days, so it's not all that MUCH underage. There was no explicit sex when he was younger.

(There's tons of Google Research in the times and events of daily life in NYC and world events. Where reasonable, factoids have been woven into the story, but there's a lot left over that wound up in chapter notes.)

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Caroline doesn't like having Steve in D.C but with her vacation officially starting, well a girl can't complain too much since her vacation will be spent with him. But before she can officially leave, all hell breaks loose and no one knows who they can trust anymore as Hydra comes out of the shadows.

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The Winter Soldier knew he was once James Barnes. He knew the life of a weapon wasn't his by choice. Just as he knew that Steve Rogers was his to protect. Only first he had to become James Buchanan Barnes again and it wasn't a process he could do alone.

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Tony finds an unconscious woman on his landing pad. Darcy rescues a confused stranger in New Mexico. Natsasha fishes an almost drowned Captain Rogers out of the Potomac. Destiny has decided to give them a second chance. Post CA:WS.

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"Good. Then I'm going to add this: If you're not ready, you need to tell him that, in those words. Otherwise, stop trying to decide for him what he is and isn't ready for."

Steve straightened, frowning. "I'm not sure--"

Dr. Tranh poked a finger into his sternum. She was stronger than her tiny frame would suggest. "I am telling you to stop feeling guilty and sex the boy up so he will stop whining at me about how frustrated he is. There are more productive things we could be spending our time on."

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Steve Rogers is an American Icon is a damn person. Darcy Lewis is a Science!wrangler is a woman with a heart. And they both have to find a middle ground between themselves to find footing in the modern world, the Tower, and happiness.

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"Drove downtown in the rain, 9:30 on a Tuesday night, just to check out the late-night record shop." Steve checks out a new local vinyl records store, where co-owner and employee, Bucky, makes a suggestion. Natasha, Sam, and Peggy can all see through them both. Just another AU of these two dorks trying to get together with this poor group of friends watching, probably with popcorn.

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He is your neighbor. You barely talk to him and you have a crush on him. Your life is a little upside down. You don't have a real job but it doesn't stop you. You work as a cartoonist to earn extra money and you use Steve as your inspiration without him knowing. Will he sniff out your secret?

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Steve has been asked to look at the SSR archives and collect what has been left for him. But will he be able to face the past? Sometimes the longest journey in life isn't one measured in distance but one measured in possibilities that could have been.

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"Let me get those," Steve says, pushing up to his knees. Bucky falls back in surprise, but doesn't fight as Steve shuffles closer. He's only wearing his pajama top, unbuttoned down the front, and his cock is flushed and erect. Not as erect as Bucky's, but then he didn't take street aphrodisiacs, did he?

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"[...] lesbians and gay men writing letters to their lovers and friends faced the special problem of wartime censorship. Military censors, of course, cut out all information that might aid the enemy, but this surveillance made it necessary for gay and lesbian correspondents to be careful not to expose their homosexuality. To get around this, gay men befriended sympathetic censors or tricked others by using campy phrases, signing a woman’s name (like Dixie or Daisy), or changing the gender of their friends. Sailors became WAVEs, boyfriends became WACs, Robert became Roberta. There must exist, hidden in closets and attics all over America, a huge literature of these World War II letters between lesbians and between gay men that would tell us even more about this important part of American history." -- Coming Out Under Fire, by Allan Berube

Letters exchanged between Bucky and Steve, beginning in 1943. This is a work in progress.